1.05 Terra Incognita
1.05 Terra Incognita
I do have a favorite scene; you might guess it by the number of screen caps.
We start at the airport, with a glimpse of a young black man carrying a Brazilian passport. He gets cleared for entrance into the country, but before he can leave, the guard notices that the man is bleeding from the ear. He gets pulled aside for questioning. An older black woman watches while a bearded white man waits in the open area. Those two talk on the phone in Portugese.
Frances leaves for work; Michael is waiting for her, wanting a favor. Can she please go talk to Kirsty and get this journalist to back off? Frances isn't too keen on the idea, since Kirsty "can make her own mistakes."
Angie examines the Brazilian man's various wounds. His name is Aguinaldo; Angie confirms that this is a Code V case. The two mention that Aguinaldo's sister asked for "Doctor March" by name. So the two go to talk to Maria; upon being introduced to Angie, she states that "Doctor March" isn't a woman. She's insistent that he is an expert in blood-related diseases.
Angie: "He died six years ago."
Maria: "I don't think so."
Angie loses her calm while talking to Maria. March insists that sickle-cell anemia can't be cured with transfusions... and she really wants to know what people had to say about Robert March. Pearse finally pulls Angie out and sends her to check on Aguinaldo. He's hemorrhaging from all over his body--wounds up and down his back, among other places. Pearse continues speaking to Maria; Angie puts Aguinaldo under UV lights. He's got bites all over his chest as well.
Mike and Vaughan go through the siblings' luggage. Vaughan gives a nicely succinct explanation of sickle-cell anemia. Doctor Robert March was working on this particular disease when he was taken. Michael and Vaughan then interview flight attendants. Unusual flight? Not except for the delay to load emergency medical supplies. Run, boys, run! A truck takes off, presumably with the cargo aboard. Michael gets to his car first and starts following it. Vaughan finds another crate and takes a look--it appears empty when X-rayed.
Michael continues following the truck; he tells the team not to bother with a road block. He wants to see where the cargo will be delivered.
The other mystery box (it looks like an electric coffin) is now in headquarters. Vaughan and Pearse prepare the area for a Code V.
As Michael continues driving, Frances talks to him on the phone, mentioning that Kirsty has quit her job (last week), and the journalist quit his three weeks ago. Both are inside Kirsty's home with the curtains drawn in middle of the afternoon. Michael asks her to write a note with his phone number on it and slip it under door. Frances agrees with an acerbic comment: "If you want to sound that desperate."
Vaughan stops by Aguinaldo's hospital room to check on Angie. Vaughan wants to know how she is. Angie finds the case confusing.
Angie: "I doubt even Robert could make sense out of this."
Vaughan: "But you will."
Pit stop for the mystery truck. Michael can tell that the driver knows he's being tailed.
Maria gets frustrated with Harman, mentions that he is so typical for a priest. Pearse never introduced himself as a priest, though. (And as usual, he's not wearing clothing that identifies him as a priest.)
Pearse sends Vaughan to "charm" Maria into finding out where the cargo truck is going. They go to the Thames for her to pray; Maria explains about her religion to Vaughan. They discuss Robert March.
Maria: "She thinks her husband is dead. He's not. He can be saved. Won't you help her?"
Angie isn't happy with Pearse blocking her from interviewing Maria. "No one investigates family," says Pearse. Angie explains about the pattern of wounds on Aguinaldo: less of a feeding frenzy, more of a tasting.
Michael insists that they pull the truck over now--his cop instincts tell him something is going on. Pearse agrees. They pull the truck over; it's carrying old tires. The crates were never on board; they were diverted in Customs.
Vaughan drives Maria to a warehouse. She was supposed to bring Angie there; instead she delivers Vaughan. He gets knocked out by goons and stuck inside the empty building with the four coffins; five minutes left on the timers.
Michael calls him; he and Vaughan share a stoic moment about Vaughan's impending death. Excellent soundtrack moment, by the way. Vaughan is trying to find a way out without success.
Angie and Pearse look at the coffin in headquarters. Vaughan calls Angie but doesn't speak; finally he hangs up. Sitting against the wall, he holds his gun and braces himself for suicide. Then he has a flash of inspiration; grabbing a coffin, he puts it by door, fiddles with the timer, opens it early and shoots. Boom: hole in the door.
Angie and Vaughan get to see their coffin's contents. It's Corin Redgrave!
Michael finally shows up at the warehouse with the helicopter. The coffins are empty. Vaughan pops back inside; Michael wants to know if he's been turned.
Vaughan: "If I was, you'd be dead by now."
Michael: "Wish you'd stop saying that."
Creepy Redgrave knows far too much about the people on the other side of the glass. He tries to get to Angie and does pretty well, in fact. Referring to the 'deaths' of Angie's husband and daughter, he asks, "Was it the priest? You think he saved you? Have you looked in the mirror recently?"
Angie leaves the room.
Maria's body is floating in the Thames--an apparent suicide. Michael asks Vaughan how he got away the first time Code V attacked him.
Vaughan: "I ran. The rest of the squad stood their ground."
Aguinaldo is more stable now. Angie figured out that he was given synthetic blood. If a human can survive on it, so can the Code V. But it led to Aguinaldo's hemorrhaging.
Pearse: "They want your husband to perfect it."
Angie wonders if the Code V do want peace. And the ramifications for a positive impact on human health would be immense.
Angie: "We should keep an open mind."
Pearse: "That's the most dangerous thing we can do."
Vaughan tells Mike not to mention his close shave to Angie. "Whatever you say, boss," Michael answers. Angie already knows about it, though.
She invites Vaughan back to her place for coffee, where they instead have a brandy. "What did she say about Robert?" asks Angie.
Vaughan: "She said you could have him back."
Angie: "What did you say?"
Vaughan: "I said what I always say. When you're dead, you're dead."
Vaughan gives a slightly longer speech about moving on; Angie isn't receptive. He's concerned about what she's thinking. She snaps, "I already know what I think," but the look on her face doesn't correspond. Vaughan kisses the top of her head as he prepares to leave. She's flustered. "I'll see you tomorrow," he tells her; Angie grabs his hand for a moment before he goes out.
Michael finds a note from Kirsty inside his apartment, giving a place and time for a meeting. He rushes about in preparation, leaving his fancy Code V gun in his apartment.
He finds Kirsty at the bar she selected. She looks lovely, and says a lot of things that are initially pleasing. It's hard to know how much is true--some of it, yes. Not all. She calls him on being jealous--which he totally is.
"You're not drinking," says Mike. He leaves for the restroom, gutted by the possibility that Kirsty has been turned. Realizing that he forgot his magic gun thingy, he breaks the mirror to take a piece of it and then goes to check if Kirsty is one of the Code V... and gets tackled by two men--presumably the bar's bodyguards, but I'm not certain about that--before he can get the answer. Kirsty runs away.
I find it surprising that both Vaughan and Michael ignore the possibility that the Code V killed Maria. She knew a lot of information. Hm.
I REALLY LOVE THIS EPISODE. How about you?
pining: 5/5 off the charts for Vaughan pining over Angie. He almost died and called her just to hear her voice!
alpha male standoffs: Vaughan and Michael have lost their ranking in this category; they're positively friendly lately. But Pearse and the mystery Code V keep this category active. 4/5.
the enigma prize: creepy Corin Redgrave!
implausible intuitive leaps: 2/5 for Vaughan and Michael's excessively stoic phone conversation.
I do have a favorite scene; you might guess it by the number of screen caps.
We start at the airport, with a glimpse of a young black man carrying a Brazilian passport. He gets cleared for entrance into the country, but before he can leave, the guard notices that the man is bleeding from the ear. He gets pulled aside for questioning. An older black woman watches while a bearded white man waits in the open area. Those two talk on the phone in Portugese.
Frances leaves for work; Michael is waiting for her, wanting a favor. Can she please go talk to Kirsty and get this journalist to back off? Frances isn't too keen on the idea, since Kirsty "can make her own mistakes."
Angie examines the Brazilian man's various wounds. His name is Aguinaldo; Angie confirms that this is a Code V case. The two mention that Aguinaldo's sister asked for "Doctor March" by name. So the two go to talk to Maria; upon being introduced to Angie, she states that "Doctor March" isn't a woman. She's insistent that he is an expert in blood-related diseases.
Angie: "He died six years ago."
Maria: "I don't think so."
Angie loses her calm while talking to Maria. March insists that sickle-cell anemia can't be cured with transfusions... and she really wants to know what people had to say about Robert March. Pearse finally pulls Angie out and sends her to check on Aguinaldo. He's hemorrhaging from all over his body--wounds up and down his back, among other places. Pearse continues speaking to Maria; Angie puts Aguinaldo under UV lights. He's got bites all over his chest as well.
Mike and Vaughan go through the siblings' luggage. Vaughan gives a nicely succinct explanation of sickle-cell anemia. Doctor Robert March was working on this particular disease when he was taken. Michael and Vaughan then interview flight attendants. Unusual flight? Not except for the delay to load emergency medical supplies. Run, boys, run! A truck takes off, presumably with the cargo aboard. Michael gets to his car first and starts following it. Vaughan finds another crate and takes a look--it appears empty when X-rayed.
Michael continues following the truck; he tells the team not to bother with a road block. He wants to see where the cargo will be delivered.
The other mystery box (it looks like an electric coffin) is now in headquarters. Vaughan and Pearse prepare the area for a Code V.
As Michael continues driving, Frances talks to him on the phone, mentioning that Kirsty has quit her job (last week), and the journalist quit his three weeks ago. Both are inside Kirsty's home with the curtains drawn in middle of the afternoon. Michael asks her to write a note with his phone number on it and slip it under door. Frances agrees with an acerbic comment: "If you want to sound that desperate."
Vaughan stops by Aguinaldo's hospital room to check on Angie. Vaughan wants to know how she is. Angie finds the case confusing.
Angie: "I doubt even Robert could make sense out of this."
Vaughan: "But you will."
Pit stop for the mystery truck. Michael can tell that the driver knows he's being tailed.
Maria gets frustrated with Harman, mentions that he is so typical for a priest. Pearse never introduced himself as a priest, though. (And as usual, he's not wearing clothing that identifies him as a priest.)
Pearse sends Vaughan to "charm" Maria into finding out where the cargo truck is going. They go to the Thames for her to pray; Maria explains about her religion to Vaughan. They discuss Robert March.
Maria: "She thinks her husband is dead. He's not. He can be saved. Won't you help her?"
Angie isn't happy with Pearse blocking her from interviewing Maria. "No one investigates family," says Pearse. Angie explains about the pattern of wounds on Aguinaldo: less of a feeding frenzy, more of a tasting.
Michael insists that they pull the truck over now--his cop instincts tell him something is going on. Pearse agrees. They pull the truck over; it's carrying old tires. The crates were never on board; they were diverted in Customs.
Vaughan drives Maria to a warehouse. She was supposed to bring Angie there; instead she delivers Vaughan. He gets knocked out by goons and stuck inside the empty building with the four coffins; five minutes left on the timers.
Michael calls him; he and Vaughan share a stoic moment about Vaughan's impending death. Excellent soundtrack moment, by the way. Vaughan is trying to find a way out without success.
Angie and Pearse look at the coffin in headquarters. Vaughan calls Angie but doesn't speak; finally he hangs up. Sitting against the wall, he holds his gun and braces himself for suicide. Then he has a flash of inspiration; grabbing a coffin, he puts it by door, fiddles with the timer, opens it early and shoots. Boom: hole in the door.
Angie and Vaughan get to see their coffin's contents. It's Corin Redgrave!
Michael finally shows up at the warehouse with the helicopter. The coffins are empty. Vaughan pops back inside; Michael wants to know if he's been turned.
Vaughan: "If I was, you'd be dead by now."
Michael: "Wish you'd stop saying that."
Creepy Redgrave knows far too much about the people on the other side of the glass. He tries to get to Angie and does pretty well, in fact. Referring to the 'deaths' of Angie's husband and daughter, he asks, "Was it the priest? You think he saved you? Have you looked in the mirror recently?"
Angie leaves the room.
Maria's body is floating in the Thames--an apparent suicide. Michael asks Vaughan how he got away the first time Code V attacked him.
Vaughan: "I ran. The rest of the squad stood their ground."
Aguinaldo is more stable now. Angie figured out that he was given synthetic blood. If a human can survive on it, so can the Code V. But it led to Aguinaldo's hemorrhaging.
Pearse: "They want your husband to perfect it."
Angie wonders if the Code V do want peace. And the ramifications for a positive impact on human health would be immense.
Angie: "We should keep an open mind."
Pearse: "That's the most dangerous thing we can do."
Vaughan tells Mike not to mention his close shave to Angie. "Whatever you say, boss," Michael answers. Angie already knows about it, though.
She invites Vaughan back to her place for coffee, where they instead have a brandy. "What did she say about Robert?" asks Angie.
Vaughan: "She said you could have him back."
Angie: "What did you say?"
Vaughan: "I said what I always say. When you're dead, you're dead."
Vaughan gives a slightly longer speech about moving on; Angie isn't receptive. He's concerned about what she's thinking. She snaps, "I already know what I think," but the look on her face doesn't correspond. Vaughan kisses the top of her head as he prepares to leave. She's flustered. "I'll see you tomorrow," he tells her; Angie grabs his hand for a moment before he goes out.
Michael finds a note from Kirsty inside his apartment, giving a place and time for a meeting. He rushes about in preparation, leaving his fancy Code V gun in his apartment.
He finds Kirsty at the bar she selected. She looks lovely, and says a lot of things that are initially pleasing. It's hard to know how much is true--some of it, yes. Not all. She calls him on being jealous--which he totally is.
"You're not drinking," says Mike. He leaves for the restroom, gutted by the possibility that Kirsty has been turned. Realizing that he forgot his magic gun thingy, he breaks the mirror to take a piece of it and then goes to check if Kirsty is one of the Code V... and gets tackled by two men--presumably the bar's bodyguards, but I'm not certain about that--before he can get the answer. Kirsty runs away.
I find it surprising that both Vaughan and Michael ignore the possibility that the Code V killed Maria. She knew a lot of information. Hm.
I REALLY LOVE THIS EPISODE. How about you?
pining: 5/5 off the charts for Vaughan pining over Angie. He almost died and called her just to hear her voice!
alpha male standoffs: Vaughan and Michael have lost their ranking in this category; they're positively friendly lately. But Pearse and the mystery Code V keep this category active. 4/5.
the enigma prize: creepy Corin Redgrave!
implausible intuitive leaps: 2/5 for Vaughan and Michael's excessively stoic phone conversation.